How to Use life expectancy in a Sentence

life expectancy

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  • Two years of declining life expectancy may not prove to be the start of a long-term trend.
    — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • At about 76, the U.S. life expectancy, the adult will probably die from one of these diseases.
    — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But by 2022, most of the world was back on the upward path, pushing life expectancy to a new global high.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Simpson said that in whale terms that means she’s lived past her life expectancy.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • This decline marks the largest decrease in life expectancy since 1923, according to the CDC.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The average life expectancy for a woman in the United States is 77.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Many journalists have examined life expectancy over the years, but not with the sweep of the Post series.
    — Stat Staff, STAT, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Over the last decade, women's healthy life expectancy has declined by five years and men's by close to three years, according to the study.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 June 2023
  • The Post spent the past year examining U.S. life expectancy.
    — Janice Kai Chen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • For American men, life expectancy fell by more than eight months, and for women the loss was about seven months, the study found.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Charted: How life expectancy is changing around the world.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
  • People with the disease have a life expectancy that’s more than two decades shorter than the rest of the US population.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
  • As a result, there is a small, decreased life expectancy in people with MGUS.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Sleep this way to add years to your life These sleep habits added nearly five years to a man’s life expectancy and almost 2.5 years to a woman’s life, a new study found.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Wild cottontails can live up to five years, but the average life expectancy for those that are old enough to leave the nest is only around 11 months.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The country has long struggled with low birth rates and long life expectancy, and has seen the number of deaths outnumber births in recent years.
    — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • What is the life expectancy of someone with uterine cancer?
    — Jenny McCoy, Health, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The fact that the people who died of of the disease last year lost more years of potential life helps explain why the average life expectancy at birth fell by so much.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The life expectancy of those with the disease has increased dramatically over the years.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The pandemic accounted for about half the decline in life expectancy, according to the CDC.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Doctors have said the life expectancy after a diagnosis like Zak’s is about 12 to 18 months.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
  • Ninety percent of those with childhood leukemias are cured, and patients with one type of adult leukemia have near-normal life expectancy.
    — Jeff Levin-Scherz, STAT, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Unicorn founders' average age of 45 further dispels the notion that age is a limiter on the north side of life expectancy.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The solar farm, which has a project life expectancy of 40 years, will be interconnected with and sold to ComEd, Sienkowski said.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • There are variables that can increase or decrease life expectancy in any stage of lung cancer.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Living alone is more common for women, who have longer life expectancies.
    — Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Cox and her husband, Justin, were informed by their doctors that if their child survived the pregnancy, her life expectancy would be at best a week.
    — CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Such areas often see more than their share of social ills such as lower life expectancy.
    — Asutosh Padhi, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Hotter climates will stress the battery which will result in a shorter life expectancy.
    — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This may explain why West Virginians have the second-lowest life expectancy in the country and some of the poorest health metrics.
    — Clay Marsh, Fortune Well, 15 July 2023

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